Robert Atkins Quotes

Too often in politics the stiletto is slipped between your shoulder blades, while its wielder continues to smile sweetly.

He would double-cross and destroy the reputation of anybody.

However, those who have used those words use half the sentence to fit their purpose, which, of course, I believe is to discredit me and the new Nation of Islam that has come up around me.

Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

I know how easy it is for one to stay well within moral, ethical, and legal bounds through the skillful use of words - and to thereby spin, sidestep, circumvent, or bend a truth completely out of shape. To that extent, we are all liars on numerous occasions.

He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.

Men who are engaged in public life must necessarily aim at reducing opposition to a minimum, and one of the most obvious means to that end is by misrepresenting, discrediting or ruining their opponents.

I realized that we were all sort of conspiring, well, not conspiring against each other, but all this cloak and dagger stuff and I was like; what is this?

When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.

Anyone can make anyone else look bad if they really want to pull things apart enough.

Set of Vipers

I invented the low blow. I can outdemagogue the best of demagogues.

[Allen Dulles] was not above misleading Congress or his colleagues or even his commander in chief.

Conspiracy is a small but durable seller, retooled every year or so.

People do not necessarily reveal what is going on - only bad actors do.

In Washington, the ostensible story is rarely the real story.

I believe conspiracy theories are part of a larger conspiracy to distract us from the real conspiracy. String theory.

A person who is keen to shake your hand usually has something up his sleeve.

That is the way with people ... If they do you wrong, they invent a bad name for you, a good name for their acts and then destroy you in the name of virtue.

Masters of the bluff and masters of the proposition, but the enemy I see wears a cloak of decency.

Meekness is the mask of malice.

That practis'd falsehood under saintly shew, Deep malice to conceal, couch'd with revenge.

You have, let us say, a promising politician, a rising artist that you wish to destroy. Dagger or bomb are archaic, clumsy and unreliable - but teach him, inoculate him with chess.

When you lie about your age, the terrorists win.

I suppose I could let bygones be bygones, forgive and forget, yadda yadda. But where's the fun in that? These pretty little bitches got everything I ever wanted, and now I'm going to make sure they get exactly what they deserve. Does that make me sound awful? Sorry, but as every pretty little liar knows, sometimes the truth's ugly-and it always hurts. I'll be watching.... Mwah! -A